Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps

Hanieh Saeedi (1, 2) , James Davis Reimer (3) , Miriam Brandt (4) , Philippe-Olivier Dumais (5) , Anna Maria Jazdzewska (6) , Nicholas W. Jeffery (7) , Peter M. Thielen (8) , Mark John Costello (9)

1 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum [Frankfurt]
2 Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
3 University of the Ryukyus [Okinawa]
4 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
5 ULaval - Université Laval [Québec]
6 University of Lódź = Uniwersytet Łódzki
7 IOB - Institut océanographique Bedford - Bedford Oceanographic Institute [Dartmouth, Canada]
8 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
9 University of Auckland [Auckland]

in 2010, the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As this plan approaches its end, we discussed whether marine biodiversity and prediction studies were nearing the Aichi Targets during the 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity held in Montreal, Canada in June 2018. This article summarises the outcome of a five-day group discussion on how global marine biodiversity studies should be focused further to better understand the patterns of biodiversity. We discussed and reviewed seven fundamental biodiversity priorities related to nine Aichi Targets focusing on global biodiversity discovery and predictions to improve and enhance biodiversity data standards (quantity and quality), tools and techniques, spatial and temporal scale framing, and stewardship and dissemination. We discuss how identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps and promoting efforts have and will reduce such gaps, including via the use of new databases, tools and technology, and how these resources could be improved in the future. The group recognised significant progress toward Target 19 in relation to scientific knowledge, but negligible progress with regard to Targets 6 to 13 which aimed to safeguard and reduce human impacts on biodiversity. Keywords: Aichi targets; Biodiversity tools and pipelines; Biogeography; Data standard; Data standards; Discovery; Dissemination; Marine biodiversity; Prediction; Stewardship; Stewardship and dissemination; Tools and pipelines.

Mots clés: Marine biodiversity; Prediction; progress; Stewardship; Stewardship and dissemination; Tools and pipelines; Dissemination; Discovery; Data standards; Data standard; Biodiversity tools and pipelines; Aichi targets; deep-sea; benefits; diversity gradient; coral-reefs; assemblages; species richness; patterns; life; conservation; Biogeography

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Ecosystèmes

Hanieh Saeedi, James Davis Reimer, Miriam Brandt, Philippe-Olivier Dumais, Anna Maria Jazdzewska, et al.. Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps. PeerJ, 2019, 7, pp.e7221. ⟨10.7717/peerj.7221⟩. ⟨hal-02439858⟩